This is such a new, interesting and unique way to design the hero section of a website. I would love to play around with this type of design. The layout generator is super helpful. Thank you so much for sharing 😊
I wish some designers knew that users usually visit a website for specific information or to do perform a few actions. All this noise in the design is just....... nope.. they look good, but that is about it. I wouldn't even know where to click to get started with anything. Great video btw ❤. Thanks for sharing
A lot of these achieve what print used to do. It can ABSOLUTELY be done in a user friendly way. These are concepts. The whole point is to get the information people are looking for up front. Its up to you to know how to use grids, contrast, color and typography to make sure the eye knows where to look 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Its really not that hard.
These new trends are overwhelming, but my issue would be making some of these dynamic layouts mobile responsive(I'll appreciate a future video on that if possible).
I was just thinking this --- how does that look on mobile?! Surely it just ends up stacking again, and considering most people will view it on mobile, is it all that different?
@@stevetitch Well how else would you want the content to appear on a device with a screen size constraint, i.e viewing a site on a smartphone and in portrait mode? You will now need to present the most important information to the user and watering down and/or eliminating the excess eye-candy so that you give the user a more streamlined mobile experience. You will need to make the website more 'appy' if you want people to engage with it. Home page should be boxes with clear CTAs imo 🙂
Frontend Engineers don't hire designers most of the time. And designers tend to rely on flashy portfolios, because they usually catch the ice. Are they usable? Maybe not. But for a junior designer it can work.
I am both. Engineers should push back if it's unrealistic. Designers should respect the push back and focus on representing the brand, which includes pushing boundaries where need be.
@@videos6505 this fact is quite unique since these designs are actually awesome, it seems majority client are not brave enough to use these kind of style
I've noticed the trend of "everything above the fold" coming back recently. This feels like the reaction to that. It's too busy in my opinion, and just like other trends it will probably fade out to something a bit more tame after a year or so
The difficulty with these layouts is you really have to decide in the wireframe stage that it's the design style you're going to use, because you need more content than on a standard hero.
@rickyanthony Your comment proves the fact that you do not know and do not understand what UX is. First, read Hicks' law and understand the fact that a clutter of elements does not simplify, but complicates the user's scanning of the site. And lastly, remember! All these methods of posting content are useless when today more than 70% of traffic comes from smartphones where everything is limited to 1-2 columns!
@@zadzadny Well, yes, you are absolutely right. When can you convince the biology of the eye that a frame of 100 pixels does not look larger than a circle of 100 pixels! And in order for the optical circle to look the same size, you need to make it 120 pixels and then to the eye they will appear the same in size. Then ask who I am and why the laws of the UX were written for a reason and why they must not only be read, but also understood how they work! А до тех пор закрой свой рот хохол!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎯 Web Design Trends Introduction 00:52 🌟 Example 1: Dynamic Hero Section 01:45 🌈 Example 2: Typographic Emphasis 02:41 🌀 Example 3: Busy yet Dynamic 03:35 🕰️ Evolution of Hero Sections 05:13 🌐 Future Trends in Hero Sections Made with HARPA AI
I like the very narrow gutter widths, especially on the first example at 1:00. It's really futuristic how the hero section almost touches the navbar but it still looks right
As much as these designs are slick, explorative, and eye-catching, I can see some of them being a bit tricky to build whilst remaining responsive on mobile. Figma is one thing, and development is another.
Something not being discussed enough is this: how do these designs translate to mobile? Especially when optimizing for conversions. Great final design btw
Great designs, especially layout elements positionings. As a developer, it would be arduous to implement and make it responsive but this can be solved for high cost and significant time.
Only if they're done incorrectly. If the pillars of design are respected, it'll work just fine. Grids, contrast, color, typography. Balance them effectively and you can do a lot more than put text next to a photo.
For me this trend is a big NO. Not only it lacks one important concept of design, which is hierarchy, but it also distracts the user. Definitely too busy and confused for my tastes.
Hi, great stuff but I am worried about the fact that such layouts might make users work to find content while on the other hand the typical "template-y" layouts do the work themselves and users don't have trouble finding information. Proceed caution when creating such layouts that are on dribbble and make sure users are able to find information that is important
It's always nice to see more creative approaches to the hero section. However, I'm not sure how this can be adapted in a mobile screen without losing legibility. Or rather I'd say, it hasn't yet been figured out maybe. . It could also be a cool topic for a future video, where you attempt to convert similar hero sections to mobile screen sizes. I'd definitely love to see that video.
I agree. A responsive design with breakpoints I don’t see it working unless it’s in columns and rows but with hierarchy. Some of the designs have the biggest element lower on the screen. Would make zero sense in responsiveness
@@dcarter_uxin modern development you can just make two different components to show for different breakpoint - so design for mobile might be completely different
@@indexzet Its easy enough to make the design responsive by simply add or remove content, but that is if the desired approach it begs the question: why design it in such a way in the first place? Content is king. It reminds me a bit of architects who go well and beyond to create the most impressive buildings, however, completely seem to forget the fact that said building actually is intended to have a purpose beyond looking pretty. There is a quote by Steve Krug that has stuck with me: "If your audience is going to act like you're designing billboards, then design great billboards." His quote is in relation to user's tendency to scan content for what they're searching for. These designs are the opposite of that with a lot of secondary and tertiary information sprinkled all over to create a visually interesting design. Admittedly a lot of these look great great, but from an UX point of view I am almost 100 % sure they would score significantly lower.
I'd like to see how a lot of these responsively scale to smaller screens. I've hand-coded a few header sections that drastically moved text around imagery and it was truly an absurd and unnecessary waste of time. To me, it looked very cool and seemed worth it, but honestly nobody cares at all and that means it's truly not worth it. If you're working with dynamic content that's going to change, it's even sillier.
It’s actually considered the bento box design concept.. designers are trying to mimic Japanese styles for grid layouts. It is not really new, I saw other designers trying to figure ways to use this 6 years ago. It’s only becoming more useful with flex box and mimicking some native app layouts to the desktop. Also very print like approach.
Designers have been doing stuff like this in magazines for decades. Its not mimicking Japanese grid layouts. Its just using grids, first year design class stuff. Highly recommend reading Making and Breaking the Grid to prepare for the future.
I hope we get some changes like this that work. Most of the time, I just skip over everything on a website and go straight to what I need. We might as well just put the menu as the hero image. If we can get with the coders on this and do testing to make sure the experience is good, we can make some great new designs 🎉
But how do u even make those corners without using a pentool (1:35) I mean, the shapes are on the image or as a background on the text? I just haven’t found the way to make them consistent in design, let’s not talk about code 😂
Interesting concept but probably a waste of time for the vast majority of websites unless you can prove it makes a noticable impact on conversion rates. Across the sites I run, desktop traffic generally acounts for 25-35% of total traffic, and sometimes as little as 10%. There are exceptions, but this is very much the norm. If you have plenty of resources and a much higher percentage desktop traffic than usual go for it, but otherwise it's silly to spend the extra designer and developer time on something most of your users won't see.
5:20 - I think I would prefer to have a green stamp kinda design (not sure what it is called) saying eat fresh or healthy which would be spinning in the place of "Eat fresh..." and change the truck image to someone happy eating food. As seeing someone happy basically makes the brand look trustable.
What you said at about the 5:15ish mark - the second example might perform better than the third even though the third is more current. So many people wanting websites/apps would look at the two examples and immediately want the new trend even if you explain that the second option would perform better. It's frustrating as a consultant to implement this way.
Really interesting designs, but are these "mobile first" designs? As part of your review it would be nice to see the mobile version of the design as well, especially considering that there was a ton of info and design elements at the top of the page. It would be interesting to see how that translates on mobile.
I too wish reviews like this talk about mobile. That said, I've seen a few modern websites omit certain paragraphs on the mobile version. Like a 3 column Header and Paragraph layout will keep the Header and hide the Paragraph elements on mobile so they can reserve some of that horizontal flow.
Love to see designs on dribble. This guys think outside the box. Even though this is not perfect, it will be nice to tap into there creativity and create designs thats aesthetically and also works in terms of ux ❤❤
Optimizing photos and other media for faster load times is an important aspect of effective web design. Speed is a vital aspect in user happiness and can have a big impact on your website's search engine rankings.
I love new things, innovations and ideas that are coming up every once in a while, but to me this is not really it. I love keeping my hero sections extra simple, no extra clutter etc. 🤷♂
I guess this new trend it's more like a magazine type of layout. It requires more attention but it delivers a more compact message. If the text is written well, it can really work.
Have a huge problem with these layouts. They make finding content you are interested in hard. Imagine doing the first design for a startup - visitors need to process a ton of info before getting to the product that the startup builds and evaluate if its useful for them.
Respectfully, what a mess these things are. If you want to persuade your visitor to take action, then keep the steps obvious and simple. The skill is in managing the content to make the message obvious. Keep simplifying until everyone can understand your message and you will start converting. KISS … always
great designs for a few percentage of people viewing it on large 16:10 desktop screens. Otherwise it is responsivity nightmare and not usable for laptop screens at all. Plus, hero should not beat you with information scattered all over the place, no matter the perfection of the grid etc.
It seems to be mostly inspired by that Apple trend where they throw in all their specs onto 1 blocky grid. It works for those presentation/video purposes but those examples are way too cluttered and a hell to make responsive..
Readability first. Designers should have that in mind. You cannot convert just with a fancy-looking site. Don't get me wrong, all those designs are looking great, so as long as you can make it easy to digest for a user it is okay. Some of them are too much cluttered.
It's like a never-ending cycle of "too chaotic, respect the fundamentals > meh boring let's break rules > too chaotic, respect the fundamentals". Chaotic, hardly legible sites work only for certain cases, not always. No need for it to be either/or, there's plenty of room for all designs to live but all in good moderation and contextually relevant.
interesting approach. it first comes to my mind to see mobile - everyone still focusing on these flashy desktop designs but how do they look (and especially feel on mobile?). lately i love to focus on going back to super simple designs and making the site as accessible as possible in comparison to flashy. I've seen a lot of results lately where a "better looking" site performed way worse than the previous version.
How can I make the empty space in a div like that website example num 4. I tried everything and the only thing worked is clip-path which is complicated to place and set sizes
I like some of these from a design perspective, but most of them are a bit too busy and cluttered. And it is challenging to implement these as a template system with a set of rules i believe while maintaining recognizability
Instead of calling it a dynamic and fluid design trend, i find it to be very gen z with all the important information just added in and emphasized to be consumed in one go. It is due to how we consume content and information these days. And the art style and visuals are definitely trending. Look at the branding and elements used by figma. It’s exactly the same art style as the references. With a major name like that in design setting the trend, others are just following suit. But some of the examples weren’t accessible at all. As are many of the designs on dribbble or behance. And they’re tricky to implement in terms of responsiveness. A tutorial on how to do that well would be a great video!! (With examples of how figma is doing it well)
This is really interesting, but im not seeing large businesses do this? I feel like the cutting edge design community and enterprise organizations are in seperate head scapces in terms of web design. Maybe they are a couple years behind?
These more dynamic hero sections have a higher “delight”factor ✨ it’s our (designers) job to find a good balance with usability. I’d love to see a video on how this trend is applied on mobile as all the examples I find are desktop size
I like the look of most of these things. But I really feel like most people doing this stuff don't take into account the amount of WORK it would take to make not only these layouts look accurate to the design, but also make them work on multiple devices. I think most of these designs should provide a respective mobile version
Interesting looking trends and these look cool, but not really my cup of tea for websites 😅 I'm having a hard time knowing where to focus first and where the design wants me to look next, it's just too overwhelming and busy in my opinion. BUT, when done right, I think this new look could still work, if it's not super busy and it's kept simple. 😄
There was once a time when the so called 'experts' criticized certain layout styles, favoring carousels and sliders instead. How sites have mostly looked has been down to influence of trends on design choices. One can either conform to trends or opt for a personal approach in creating layouts, especially for critical elements like the homepage. The homepage plays a crucial role in engaging visitors and achieving business goals. A lot of what im seeing in this video is nothing new, it was just something I and i'm sure countless others worldwide tried implementing and showcasing to our supposed seniors only to be told to go away and 'do it properly' (being shown a wordpress theme with a massive carousel slider on the home page...). Ultimately, the effectiveness of a design is determined by user-testing results, a step often overlooked by designers. The reluctance to engage in discussions about usability and user experience is noted.
MAJOR cognitive accessibility concerns. The design @1:28 is darn near unparsable with how much is going on. Big text, okay, do I go right or down? uh. Right is pictures. I'll go down. Okay, that wasn't much. Wait there is stuff top right? Oh, but I'm not interested in that. What's on these pictures. AHHHHHH! "Where your mental health flourishes"? More like where my brain immediately screams in anguish and runs away. Your design @5:29 is fine though. My brain knows where to put my eyes to get the next bit of information I'm looking for. The real trick is that you have to be visually interesting while still adequately communicating valuable information. If you are just showing off, but not telling me anything, you're just disrespecting my time, and I'm leaving.
Tbh I really like this trend, It looks amazing if done right. But most of the designs don't get it right. It's like a bento box mixed with some non-matching design elements like text. I don't how these look on a large screen monitor and mobile though. Modern web Designs are getting to be more like digital posters.
Omg! I was not subscribed to your channel all this time... thank you for all the information, I am not a big fan of this new trend but maybe I need to experiment a little bit more to get used to it
This trend with a lot more containers in the hero section is interesting and look fantastic. But you should really think about how the human brain obtain information. Many of those design looks good, but destroys conversion because our brain gets too much information at the same time. Some of the design you show still do it good with how much information they shoot at you. But many of the have too much information. You should always think about user behaviour, psychology, user experience etc. is not about you, it's about your target audience. But if done dynamic without too much information, it can help keep your website interesting and peak interesting But I love the new way of thinking about building the hero section and walking away from these old template looking designs.
At this moment, I don't know if css frameworks starters still gonna work. I don't yet using prototyping ux designer like figma, just straight up in coding. And this design gonna take longer to built. The way the current treands are like this is because partially thanks to css frameworks and templating engines or front end frameworks. But with this, we might gonna back on traditional web built instead of cms and api assisted websites.
my worry is that it may look dynamic on a desktop, but what about on Mobile. More than have of my clients users are on mobile, so if it isn't fresh and dynamic there, it is a loss.
I like the Bento trend on desktop, but I don't know if it'll translate well to mobile, given that's >70% of the user base. I've seen quite a few that looks great on big screen but turn in to a bore fest on mobile.
First of all, I don't think it's very useful to use and analyze dribble designs as a basis for UI discussions these days. You can do that, but it's not the concrete requirements of a website. The designs are often created without any sense behind it and are just kind of pretty to look at. Take real business cases! The question is, what is the purpose of the website? It's a website for a business/startup. And if the primary task is to lead users to "Meal Options", the 2012 variant might still work best with most of the users because it leads users on a vertical line to the central Call to Action and doesn't have to much noise and context that distracts.. Although it may not be quite as "pretty" as the other layouts. In the newer versions, you just add more noise especially on mobile screens. In the latest version, you have added a green more prominent second CTA that is not included in the 2012 version, so a comparison is a bit flawed. :)
These have a lot of similarity to print design and such. They look great, might be usable but as said, will be nightmare to make responsive / work with mobile etc.
Just looks like graphic designers took over UX to me. Not to say that it’s the worst navigation ever, but these motifs were common in graphic design portfolios for a while now
Thoughts?
good work
This is such a new, interesting and unique way to design the hero section of a website. I would love to play around with this type of design. The layout generator is super helpful. Thank you so much for sharing 😊
Please add the links to the description.
@@tablomaxos2965 Done, thanks for the reminder!
I welcome any deviations from the safe and boring trends of web design.
I wish some designers knew that users usually visit a website for specific information or to do perform a few actions. All this noise in the design is just....... nope.. they look good, but that is about it. I wouldn't even know where to click to get started with anything.
Great video btw ❤. Thanks for sharing
A lot of these achieve what print used to do. It can ABSOLUTELY be done in a user friendly way. These are concepts. The whole point is to get the information people are looking for up front. Its up to you to know how to use grids, contrast, color and typography to make sure the eye knows where to look 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Its really not that hard.
These new trends are overwhelming, but my issue would be making some of these dynamic layouts mobile responsive(I'll appreciate a future video on that if possible).
I was just thinking this --- how does that look on mobile?! Surely it just ends up stacking again, and considering most people will view it on mobile, is it all that different?
i think from a response you might consider how the layout will adjust or even minimize features based on screen size and what you want the user to do
I agree. Too busy. Trying to fix a problem that isn’t there, just to start a new trend. They look like magazine layouts.
I had the same thought and I hope that @designcourse will make a video from covering this concern
@@stevetitch Well how else would you want the content to appear on a device with a screen size constraint, i.e viewing a site on a smartphone and in portrait mode? You will now need to present the most important information to the user and watering down and/or eliminating the excess eye-candy so that you give the user a more streamlined mobile experience. You will need to make the website more 'appy' if you want people to engage with it. Home page should be boxes with clear CTAs imo 🙂
As a Frontend Engineer, web performance fundamentals should become a mandatory segment for designers.
😂😂😂 let us dream
Frontend Engineers don't hire designers most of the time. And designers tend to rely on flashy portfolios, because they usually catch the ice. Are they usable? Maybe not. But for a junior designer it can work.
It's just Dribble and most of these Design will never be "executed".
I am both. Engineers should push back if it's unrealistic. Designers should respect the push back and focus on representing the brand, which includes pushing boundaries where need be.
@@videos6505 this fact is quite unique since these designs are actually awesome, it seems majority client are not brave enough to use these kind of style
I love how videos like this conserve our culture with contex for people in the future.
I've noticed the trend of "everything above the fold" coming back recently. This feels like the reaction to that. It's too busy in my opinion, and just like other trends it will probably fade out to something a bit more tame after a year or so
Exactly, looks very busy to me, and my question is, do these sites convert better than the ordinary sites?
The difficulty with these layouts is you really have to decide in the wireframe stage that it's the design style you're going to use, because you need more content than on a standard hero.
I agree with this one. Everything has to be deliberate for it to work.
All design should be deliberate. That's kind of the whole point.
@@alanstowe2245 but that doesn’t work on a client site that uses a CMS. They can add what content they want.
UX leave the chat...
Might as well call themselves "Overwhelming and unnecessary as f*ck UI designers"
@rickyanthony Your comment proves the fact that you do not know and do not understand what UX is.
First, read Hicks' law and understand the fact that a clutter of elements does not simplify, but complicates the user's scanning of the site.
And lastly, remember! All these methods of posting content are useless when today more than 70% of traffic comes from smartphones where everything is limited to 1-2 columns!
UX cries when see that design. Why?, they ask. For who is that? @Atractiondj thanks for understanding 💪
@@zadzadny Well, yes, you are absolutely right. When can you convince the biology of the eye that a frame of 100 pixels does not look larger than a circle of 100 pixels! And in order for the optical circle to look the same size, you need to make it 120 pixels and then to the eye they will appear the same in size. Then ask who I am and why the laws of the UX were written for a reason and why they must not only be read, but also understood how they work!
А до тех пор закрой свой рот хохол!
Accessibility is a huge factor for good UX flow as well, ignoring this actually cuts out a larger percentage of users than youd think
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🎯 Web Design Trends Introduction
00:52 🌟 Example 1: Dynamic Hero Section
01:45 🌈 Example 2: Typographic Emphasis
02:41 🌀 Example 3: Busy yet Dynamic
03:35 🕰️ Evolution of Hero Sections
05:13 🌐 Future Trends in Hero Sections
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I like the very narrow gutter widths, especially on the first example at 1:00. It's really futuristic how the hero section almost touches the navbar but it still looks right
As much as these designs are slick, explorative, and eye-catching, I can see some of them being a bit tricky to build whilst remaining responsive on mobile. Figma is one thing, and development is another.
Something not being discussed enough is this: how do these designs translate to mobile? Especially when optimizing for conversions. Great final design btw
Great designs, especially layout elements positionings. As a developer, it would be arduous to implement and make it responsive but this can be solved for high cost and significant time.
Glad to see a web designer open to the new!
All of these examples are exciting for designers, but for the average site visitor, they are confusing, busy, and cluttered.
Only if they're done incorrectly. If the pillars of design are respected, it'll work just fine. Grids, contrast, color, typography. Balance them effectively and you can do a lot more than put text next to a photo.
@@alanstowe2245 What do you think about the layouts in the video?
2:16 reminds me of the Macromedia Flash animation days, but overall I do like the use of bold colour and typography scale
For me this trend is a big NO. Not only it lacks one important concept of design, which is hierarchy, but it also distracts the user. Definitely too busy and confused for my tastes.
I didn't see a trend but a regression.
It's not for the user, it's for Dribbble
Great stuff ... great to see David Spade on the cusp of Design Trends ...
Hi, great stuff but I am worried about the fact that such layouts might make users work to find content while on the other hand the typical "template-y" layouts do the work themselves and users don't have trouble finding information. Proceed caution when creating such layouts that are on dribbble and make sure users are able to find information that is important
It's always nice to see more creative approaches to the hero section. However, I'm not sure how this can be adapted in a mobile screen without losing legibility. Or rather I'd say, it hasn't yet been figured out maybe.
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It could also be a cool topic for a future video, where you attempt to convert similar hero sections to mobile screen sizes. I'd definitely love to see that video.
I love how designers use old therm negative space as white space, even if its not actually white :P
It looks more like a magazine than a website
Also, I think it would be a nightmare to make the new design mobile friendly
I agree. A responsive design with breakpoints I don’t see it working unless it’s in columns and rows but with hierarchy. Some of the designs have the biggest element lower on the screen. Would make zero sense in responsiveness
@@dcarter_uxin modern development you can just make two different components to show for different breakpoint - so design for mobile might be completely different
@@indexzet yes i understand you. but imagine seeing that transition on desktop. on phone you would never know. meh. still...no me gusta
@@indexzet Its easy enough to make the design responsive by simply add or remove content, but that is if the desired approach it begs the question: why design it in such a way in the first place? Content is king. It reminds me a bit of architects who go well and beyond to create the most impressive buildings, however, completely seem to forget the fact that said building actually is intended to have a purpose beyond looking pretty.
There is a quote by Steve Krug that has stuck with me: "If your audience is going to act like you're designing billboards, then design great billboards." His quote is in relation to user's tendency to scan content for what they're searching for. These designs are the opposite of that with a lot of secondary and tertiary information sprinkled all over to create a visually interesting design. Admittedly a lot of these look great great, but from an UX point of view I am almost 100 % sure they would score significantly lower.
@@denhaak8792 These designs have a LOT in common with billboards. I was thinking of billboards and magazines while watching the video.
I'd like to see how a lot of these responsively scale to smaller screens. I've hand-coded a few header sections that drastically moved text around imagery and it was truly an absurd and unnecessary waste of time. To me, it looked very cool and seemed worth it, but honestly nobody cares at all and that means it's truly not worth it. If you're working with dynamic content that's going to change, it's even sillier.
It’s actually considered the bento box design concept.. designers are trying to mimic Japanese styles for grid layouts. It is not really new, I saw other designers trying to figure ways to use this 6 years ago. It’s only becoming more useful with flex box and mimicking some native app layouts to the desktop. Also very print like approach.
Ah great, I just searched "bento box web design" and I see what you mean, thanks a lot!!
I'm getting tired of bento box design. It's everywhere right now.
Designers have been doing stuff like this in magazines for decades. Its not mimicking Japanese grid layouts. Its just using grids, first year design class stuff. Highly recommend reading Making and Breaking the Grid to prepare for the future.
Thanks for the new video! I’m looking forward to seeing what other content you post! Always good to learn as much as you can!
Interesting layouts when viewing on a desktop but how do these look in mobile screen view?
I hope we get some changes like this that work. Most of the time, I just skip over everything on a website and go straight to what I need. We might as well just put the menu as the hero image.
If we can get with the coders on this and do testing to make sure the experience is good, we can make some great new designs 🎉
But how do u even make those corners without using a pentool (1:35) I mean, the shapes are on the image or as a background on the text? I just haven’t found the way to make them consistent in design, let’s not talk about code 😂
Interesting concept but probably a waste of time for the vast majority of websites unless you can prove it makes a noticable impact on conversion rates. Across the sites I run, desktop traffic generally acounts for 25-35% of total traffic, and sometimes as little as 10%. There are exceptions, but this is very much the norm. If you have plenty of resources and a much higher percentage desktop traffic than usual go for it, but otherwise it's silly to spend the extra designer and developer time on something most of your users won't see.
2:28 ‘Welcome’ is back! I’ve missed you my old friend.
5:20 - I think I would prefer to have a green stamp kinda design (not sure what it is called) saying eat fresh or healthy which would be spinning in the place of "Eat fresh..." and change the truck image to someone happy eating food. As seeing someone happy basically makes the brand look trustable.
Luv those first two in particular! Great colors also in the first, will try and recreate a demo similar to
New to UI here. What program is being used during the ecoeats review? 4:52
I extremely like the video, man. Very helpful and informative. Thank you very much. It is presented so well too. Great, positive work.
What you said at about the 5:15ish mark - the second example might perform better than the third even though the third is more current. So many people wanting websites/apps would look at the two examples and immediately want the new trend even if you explain that the second option would perform better. It's frustrating as a consultant to implement this way.
Really interesting designs, but are these "mobile first" designs? As part of your review it would be nice to see the mobile version of the design as well, especially considering that there was a ton of info and design elements at the top of the page. It would be interesting to see how that translates on mobile.
Ye. It's specially important for SEO purposes too
I too wish reviews like this talk about mobile.
That said, I've seen a few modern websites omit certain paragraphs on the mobile version. Like a 3 column Header and Paragraph layout will keep the Header and hide the Paragraph elements on mobile so they can reserve some of that horizontal flow.
Love to see designs on dribble. This guys think outside the box. Even though this is not perfect, it will be nice to tap into there creativity and create designs thats aesthetically and also works in terms of ux ❤❤
I really like this design style
Optimizing photos and other media for faster load times is an important aspect of effective web design. Speed is a vital aspect in user happiness and can have a big impact on your website's search engine rankings.
As a direct marketer who builds websites for conversions my first thoughts are ahhh overwhelming.
Shoutout Bobby Shmurda @6:34
I love new things, innovations and ideas that are coming up every once in a while, but to me this is not really it. I love keeping my hero sections extra simple, no extra clutter etc. 🤷♂
designers and architects are truly great people. Making nightmares for developers and civil engineers.
And without us, we'd all live in a grey boxes and the whole internet would be Craigslist. Balance is key.
I guess this new trend it's more like a magazine type of layout. It requires more attention but it delivers a more compact message. If the text is written well, it can really work.
Border-radius? 2024: YES
These designs are overwhelming
Have a huge problem with these layouts. They make finding content you are interested in hard. Imagine doing the first design for a startup - visitors need to process a ton of info before getting to the product that the startup builds and evaluate if its useful for them.
Respectfully, what a mess these things are. If you want to persuade your visitor to take action, then keep the steps obvious and simple.
The skill is in managing the content to make the message obvious. Keep simplifying until everyone can understand your message and you will start converting.
KISS … always
great designs for a few percentage of people viewing it on large 16:10 desktop screens. Otherwise it is responsivity nightmare and not usable for laptop screens at all. Plus, hero should not beat you with information scattered all over the place, no matter the perfection of the grid etc.
I actually liked the first Eco Eats version with the dark overlay. It’s simple and my eyes don’t need to go all over the place.
That Cereen Magazine layout was beautiful.😍
Can we see a mobile version of this trends most of this trends i dont see their mobile version
It seems to be mostly inspired by that Apple trend where they throw in all their specs onto 1 blocky grid. It works for those presentation/video purposes but those examples are way too cluttered and a hell to make responsive..
Readability first. Designers should have that in mind. You cannot convert just with a fancy-looking site. Don't get me wrong, all those designs are looking great, so as long as you can make it easy to digest for a user it is okay. Some of them are too much cluttered.
Some of the designs really look very clean
what about structure of the website. do you think the format is still the same? Hero > Services > about > benefits > testimony etc etc ?
This is a fantastic video. It's clear and easy to understand your explanations. Thank you for providing this information.
It's like a never-ending cycle of "too chaotic, respect the fundamentals > meh boring let's break rules > too chaotic, respect the fundamentals". Chaotic, hardly legible sites work only for certain cases, not always. No need for it to be either/or, there's plenty of room for all designs to live but all in good moderation and contextually relevant.
I am missing the "where this would make sense" as part of the video. To be more precise understanding the need that led to this design to appear.
interesting approach. it first comes to my mind to see mobile - everyone still focusing on these flashy desktop designs but how do they look (and especially feel on mobile?). lately i love to focus on going back to super simple designs and making the site as accessible as possible in comparison to flashy. I've seen a lot of results lately where a "better looking" site performed way worse than the previous version.
How can I make the empty space in a div like that website example num 4. I tried everything and the only thing worked is clip-path which is complicated to place and set sizes
It might really be the next trend. People have no time to scroll all the way down anymore.
Good point
Hi garry do you have the link to the other video? please... Thanks😊
I like some of these from a design perspective, but most of them are a bit too busy and cluttered. And it is challenging to implement these as a template system with a set of rules i believe while maintaining recognizability
I think we should think more about the end user and how it converts rather than a dynamic design or how bad an old design might look.
Instead of calling it a dynamic and fluid design trend, i find it to be very gen z with all the important information just added in and emphasized to be consumed in one go. It is due to how we consume content and information these days.
And the art style and visuals are definitely trending. Look at the branding and elements used by figma. It’s exactly the same art style as the references. With a major name like that in design setting the trend, others are just following suit.
But some of the examples weren’t accessible at all. As are many of the designs on dribbble or behance. And they’re tricky to implement in terms of responsiveness. A tutorial on how to do that well would be a great video!! (With examples of how figma is doing it well)
I like them but some are a tad busy. I think that comes from most likely many being design exercises for portfolios as opposed to live sites?
Great video, also your explanation. Now I have to adapt all that information into an phone app
This is really interesting, but im not seeing large businesses do this? I feel like the cutting edge design community and enterprise organizations are in seperate head scapces in terms of web design. Maybe they are a couple years behind?
These more dynamic hero sections have a higher “delight”factor ✨ it’s our (designers) job to find a good balance with usability. I’d love to see a video on how this trend is applied on mobile as all the examples I find are desktop size
Yeah which is important in todays age. Attention is everything
But Usability is important too
I am just starting the design of a new website for a plumbing company, I am going to give this a shot, thanks
I like the look of most of these things. But I really feel like most people doing this stuff don't take into account the amount of WORK it would take to make not only these layouts look accurate to the design, but also make them work on multiple devices. I think most of these designs should provide a respective mobile version
Interesting looking trends and these look cool, but not really my cup of tea for websites 😅 I'm having a hard time knowing where to focus first and where the design wants me to look next, it's just too overwhelming and busy in my opinion. BUT, when done right, I think this new look could still work, if it's not super busy and it's kept simple. 😄
Same.
There was once a time when the so called 'experts' criticized certain layout styles, favoring carousels and sliders instead. How sites have mostly looked has been down to influence of trends on design choices. One can either conform to trends or opt for a personal approach in creating layouts, especially for critical elements like the homepage. The homepage plays a crucial role in engaging visitors and achieving business goals.
A lot of what im seeing in this video is nothing new, it was just something I and i'm sure countless others worldwide tried implementing and showcasing to our supposed seniors only to be told to go away and 'do it properly' (being shown a wordpress theme with a massive carousel slider on the home page...).
Ultimately, the effectiveness of a design is determined by user-testing results, a step often overlooked by designers. The reluctance to engage in discussions about usability and user experience is noted.
Nothing screams "I use Framer!" like bento grids.
What is the software you are demonstrating can you gice me the name please?
I love the designs, but the responsive nightmare is imminent
MAJOR cognitive accessibility concerns. The design @1:28 is darn near unparsable with how much is going on. Big text, okay, do I go right or down? uh. Right is pictures. I'll go down. Okay, that wasn't much. Wait there is stuff top right? Oh, but I'm not interested in that. What's on these pictures. AHHHHHH! "Where your mental health flourishes"? More like where my brain immediately screams in anguish and runs away. Your design @5:29 is fine though. My brain knows where to put my eyes to get the next bit of information I'm looking for. The real trick is that you have to be visually interesting while still adequately communicating valuable information. If you are just showing off, but not telling me anything, you're just disrespecting my time, and I'm leaving.
Tbh I really like this trend, It looks amazing if done right. But most of the designs don't get it right. It's like a bento box mixed with some non-matching design elements like text. I don't how these look on a large screen monitor and mobile though. Modern web Designs are getting to be more like digital posters.
Omg! I was not subscribed to your channel all this time... thank you for all the information, I am not a big fan of this new trend but maybe I need to experiment a little bit more to get used to it
This trend with a lot more containers in the hero section is interesting and look fantastic.
But you should really think about how the human brain obtain information. Many of those design looks good, but destroys conversion because our brain gets too much information at the same time. Some of the design you show still do it good with how much information they shoot at you. But many of the have too much information.
You should always think about user behaviour, psychology, user experience etc. is not about you, it's about your target audience. But if done dynamic without too much information, it can help keep your website interesting and peak interesting
But I love the new way of thinking about building the hero section and walking away from these old template looking designs.
Does anyone know a channel that focuses on the implementation part of these kind of outstanding designs?
At this moment, I don't know if css frameworks starters still gonna work. I don't yet using prototyping ux designer like figma, just straight up in coding. And this design gonna take longer to built. The way the current treands are like this is because partially thanks to css frameworks and templating engines or front end frameworks. But with this, we might gonna back on traditional web built instead of cms and api assisted websites.
I wonder how all of that might look on mobile devices and how manageable it might be in CMS
my worry is that it may look dynamic on a desktop, but what about on Mobile. More than have of my clients users are on mobile, so if it isn't fresh and dynamic there, it is a loss.
bento design with this is so good
I like the Bento trend on desktop, but I don't know if it'll translate well to mobile, given that's >70% of the user base. I've seen quite a few that looks great on big screen but turn in to a bore fest on mobile.
First of all, I don't think it's very useful to use and analyze dribble designs as a basis for UI discussions these days. You can do that, but it's not the concrete requirements of a website. The designs are often created without any sense behind it and are just kind of pretty to look at. Take real business cases!
The question is, what is the purpose of the website? It's a website for a business/startup. And if the primary task is to lead users to "Meal Options", the 2012 variant might still work best with most of the users because it leads users on a vertical line to the central Call to Action and doesn't have to much noise and context that distracts.. Although it may not be quite as "pretty" as the other layouts. In the newer versions, you just add more noise especially on mobile screens. In the latest version, you have added a green more prominent second CTA that is not included in the 2012 version, so a comparison is a bit flawed. :)
Making them responsive is gonna be a headache!
Great content ! Thanks
Thanks for the cool video!
I'd like to see some of these layouts in a mobile form. I'm generally mobile first at the moment (even though I prefer how desktop web design looks!)
These have a lot of similarity to print design and such. They look great, might be usable but as said, will be nightmare to make responsive / work with mobile etc.
How do those respond to the mobile aspect ratio? They look really cool and innovative on desktop and please do a video on the mobile half
Just looks like graphic designers took over UX to me. Not to say that it’s the worst navigation ever, but these motifs were common in graphic design portfolios for a while now
How do all these designs work on mobile?
Should we call it a Complex Asymmetric Hero/Header layout trend?
Thanks for sharing!
I tried to look for same design but I couldn't find it is Possible data can borrow the design file
These layouts looks nice on Desktop but what about Mobile User experience?
Most of these designs would be a strain to the eyes (low contrast, legibility, chaotic layout, no focus, etc).
Can you paste a link to some of the best websites that has these kind of ui design template